Lydia-Mary
Christopher Cairns
1982-83
MATERIAL: metal: bronze
DIMENSIONS: overall: 61 in x 21 in x 19 in
EDITION: Edition of 9
CREDIT: Grounds For Sculpture, Gift of The Seward Johnson Atelier
© Artist's Estate, photo: David W. Steele
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'Lydia-Mary' is in part based on a character in the 1930 novel 'Narcissus and Goldmund' by the German author Herman Hesse. Although Christopher Cairns’s sculpture is not a direct embodiment of the fictional character in Hesse’s novel, 'Lydia-Mary' possesses a complex psyche and embodies the personality of a lovely yet asphyxiating maternal figure. Sculpted in clay and plaster, and later cast in bronze at the Johnson Atelier, 'Lydia-Mary' was completed in 1983.
